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In 2005, George Dyson, a historian of science and technology, visited Google at the invitation of some Google engineers. The occasion was the sixtieth anniversary of John von Neumann's proposal for a digital computer. After the visit, George wrote an essay, “Turing’s Cathedral,”...

David Kaiser is a physicist atypically interested in the intersection of his science with politics and culture, about which he has written widely. In the first meeting (in Washington, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this book, he commented on the change in how “inform...

…ken down. It is worth responding to Item 2 and 6 in more detail, Re item 2: the student in question was interested in science communication, and on dozens of occasions came to me or wrote to me with questions. When she asked about advice for after graduation I DID tell her she...

… that I wonder why these views are so widely held. Teach theory first, then practice. Because of this mantra, computer science majors often don’t learn to program in a way that actually would make them hirable, and budding medical students drown in a sea of chemistry equations....

…g more reliable and valid if grasped via direct experience. Knowing by what the popular mid-twentieth century writer of science fiction, Robert Heinlein, called grocking it. This is antithetical to the attitudes of today’s human cognitive and brain sciences which disallow such kn...

…and was valedictorian at Wayzata High School. In 1982, she graduated from Yale magna cum laude with a B.A. in political science. During college, she was a member of the Yale College Democrats, the Feminist Caucus, and the improv troupe Suddenly Susan. During her time at Yale, Klo...

…not only lack empathy for their patients, but see them as vermin or parasites that require extermination in the name of science and the preservation of our species. Denial has transformed other human beings into nonhuman forms, from inert objects to wild animals and parasites. De...

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…eus, Pandora, and Faust. And today it has gone into high gear. Jeremiahs, many of them (like Wiener) from the worlds of science and technology, have sounded alarms about nanotechnology, genetic engineering, Big Data, and particularly artificial intelligence. Several contributors...

…eason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted...

…times. None of this requires much attention be paid to truth, insight, or originally. Arguably, this is why the social sciences are such a mess. Few bother to incorporate evidence or arguments from outsiders (e.g., social psychologists don’t consult historians, economists barely...

…ons? The answer is just more gradient descent. Our Brains As miraculous and inscrutable as our human intelligence is, science is coming around to the view that our brains operate the same way as any other complex system with layers and feedback loops, all pursuing what we mathe...

…] According to methodology described by Keith Poole of the University of San Diego in the American Journal of Political Science, McGovern ranks as the 99th most liberal politician out of 3,320 politicians serving from 1937 to 2002. [c] In a letter to the Wall Street Journal. Re...

…m, McKinsey Global Institute. Chm, Bay Area Council. Board: McKinsey & Co, Economic Institute of the Bay Area, Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium, The New America Foundation, Common Cause, Committee for Economic Development, ChildrenNow, and DonorsChoose. *Eugene Meyer*...

…e ultimately perceptual in nature and subject to observational replication - that's why they call physics an empirical science. But consciousness is not. Consciousness cannot be objectively, replicably observed. Its putative physical correlates, including HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_03240...